This manual contains our combined experience of decades of playing and teaching piano. Carole and I talked often about giving it freely to anyone who wanted it and now, thanks to the power of the internet, we can. (next line) Please leave comments and feedback. Best wishes for your joy and progress in mastering the piano!

17 Comments

I´we browsed the content of the Piano Manual. I can hardly wait to begin reading and trying out the material contained in the manual.
Having watched some of the videos with Valery Lloyd Watts on youtube, I´we become an admirer of her musical talent and caring human qualities.

P.S. The email shown on my website is no longer valid, it has been replaced by the email address shown above.

thank you so much for this valuable resource!
I am in the middle of writing an assignment for a piano pedagogy course and your manual is a great help!
Your generosity is sincerely appreciated in making available such a detailed document of such high quality.
many thanks again!!!

Thank you so much! The maze of teaching literature is so vast. I am now excited that I have one source and a game plan. This course has fired up my confidence and I can hardly wait to master it and put it to use.

I grew up with the Suzuki method and attended the institute every summer, where I was able to meet Carole and take their Suzuki teacher’s course. Amazing and effective stuff. I also had the honor of having Valery as my teacher for a short while and she was amazing (is amazing). Thanks ladies and I’m so happy to see that you’re still going strong. I’ve been recently re-teaching myself the piano (it never really goes completely) and I’ve been using the methods I’d learned years ago to successfully teach myself. It all starts with a little Bread, Peanut Butter & Jelly (my first song, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star taught with Suzuki method).

Who knew that almost 40 years later I would be going back to where it all started. I’m doing some research for a Masters in Music Technology and have an assignment on learning theories. I’m glad to see this online, and proud to know I was a direct product of it! I hope you see this Valery, I wish Carole were still her for me to talk to directly.

I’ve just watched some of your lectures on Youtube (that’s how I found you and this website) and it was amazing! Right now I’m feeling blessed to find all this great content for free. I do appreciate your work and your generosity. Hope I can you back someday in the future,